Day after day after day, Justin Bruening - the new "Knight Rider," airing Sunday Feb. 17 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on NBC - would report at the crack of dawn at various sound stages near Los Angeles, leap into the latest remake of KITT (a 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR), gun the 600 horsepower engine, and go absolutely nowhere. While talking to himself.
The gleaming vehicle - one of six identical muscle cars ... [full story]

Andy Bey doesn't promise his audiences musical transcendence each time he performs. But if the spirits are willing - his own and his music's - this remarkable singer can transport his listeners to an exalted state with just his luminous voice and graceful piano playing.
ANDY BEY - Acclaimed jazz singer Andy Bey strives to impart his music with deeper meaning. 'You have to get past white and black, and good and bad,' he says, ... [full story]

Brendan Fraser has a weird way of building a career. He started off making a lot of deliberately dumb comedies like "Encino Man," "Airheads" and "George of the Jungle." But then he proved that he is capable of so much more with a strong performance opposite Ian McKellen in the Oscar winner "Gods and Monsters."
BRENDAN FRASER - Brendan Fraser plays a guy called Pleasure in the unconventional ensemble drama, 'The Air I Breathe.' CNS ... [full story]

Six years after Sylvester Stallone earned two Oscar nominations for writing and starring in "Rocky," he created another American icon with his screenplay for "First Blood."
SYLVESTER STALLONE - Sylvester Stallone returns to the big screen as John Rambo in the action movie 'Rambo.' CNS Photo courtesy of Karen Ballard. Now, two decades since the last film in the franchise, Stallone is resurrecting the army-of-one for "Rambo," the fourth macho movie about the beefed-up, disgruntled Vietnam ... [full story]

Wearing a flesh-colored body suit and screaming her lungs out, Cheryl Hines made her professional acting debut being stabbed with a long knife by a shadowy character while in a running shower 12 times a day in the "Psycho" soundstage attraction at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla. Although she was always dripping wet, Hines considered playing Marion Crane (Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 motion picture version) a fantastic gig complete with decent weekly paychecks ... [full story]

Shooting "Bernard and Doris" for less than $500,000 was a brilliant bit of guerrilla moviemaking loved by a top-flight cast and crew getting paid very little and having the time of their professional lives. When there was no cash left in the skimpy budget for the project, which was shot in 25 days during the 2005 Christmas holidays at a Long Island, N.Y., museum, members of the production team - from Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon, ... [full story]

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin; Pantheon; 240 pages; $24.
Back in 2006, University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin and colleagues made international headlines when they announced their discovery of a Tiktaalik, a fish-like creature that lived 375 million years ago.
YOUR INNER FISH - Neil Shubin's new book is a remarkably enthusiastic and easy-to-read explanation of evolution. CNS Photo. What made the Tiktaalik (an Inuit ... [full story]

Few musicians in (or out of) rock 'n' roll have inspired as much praise, frustration and derision as has Ryan Adams.
HARD-WORKING - The career of Ryan Adams has been an up-and-down affair, with praise for some work, but criticism for his willingness to release album after album. CNS Photo courtesy of Jon Graboff. When he's in top form, this versatile singer, songwriter and bandleader is capable of inspired performances that can rise to magical levels, ... [full story]

Lupe Fiasco recently had the distinction of being the first musical guest to appear on the first episode of TV's "The Late Show With David Letterman" following the program's two-month, writers-strike-fueled hiatus. It was a fitting honor for the hip-hop maverick, who cites Billie Holiday, Tom Waits and Johnny Cash among his favorite artists, and credits "Sesame Street" and Dr. Seuss among his biggest songwriting influences.
FIASCO IN THE MAKING - Making albums requires a ... [full story]

In the opening scene of "Cloverfield," the much-buzzed monster movie from "Lost" mastermind J.J. Abrams, a young man sticks a video camera in his mate's face as she emerges from under the bedcovers.
MONSTER BUZZ - Michael Stahl-David and Jessica Lucas slam the door on an uninvited beast in the monster flick 'Cloverfield.' CNS Photo courtesy of Sam Emerson. "Oh, I can just see this ending up on the Internet," she groans.
Actually, just about everything ... [full story]

If pain, emotional upheaval and an apparently insatiable appetite for self-administered destruction are among the keys to artistic creativity, Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty must rank among the most creative young tortured artists on the planet.
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM - The eating disorders that gifted English singer Amy Winehouse has battled pale in comparison to her current drug and alcohol abuse. CNS Photo courtesy of Republic. Or, more likely, these two English musicians-turned-human-train-wrecks are ... [full story]

A recent graduate of the University of Iowa and still dripping wet behind the ears, Terry O'Quinn made his professional acting debut in a production of "Tartuffe" at Baltimore's Center Stage in 1975.
TERRY O'QUINN - Terry O'Quinn, who recently earned the 2007 Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama series, is back on eight new episodes of 'Lost.' CNS Photo courtesy of ABC.In fact, he loved it so much that he hung around ... [full story]